Genome-Wide Detection of Selection Signatures in Duroc Revealed Candidate Genes Relating to Growth and Meat Quality.

ABSTRACT: With the development of high-throughput genotyping techniques, selection signatures in the genome of domestic pigs have been extensively interrogated in the last decade. The Duroc, a major commercial pig breed famous for its fast growth rate and high lean ratio, has not been extensively studied focusing on footprints of intensively artificial selection in their genomes by a lot of re-sequencing data. The goal of this study was to investigate genomic regions under artificial selection and their contribution to the unique phenotypic traits of the Duroc using whole-genome resequencing data from 97 pigs. Three complementary methods (d_i, CLR, and iHH12) were implemented for selection signature detection. In Total, 464 significant candidate regions were identified, which covered 46.4

SUBMITTER: Yu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534417 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature